Faculty Research
Prof. McPherson in Burkina Faso investigating connections between tonal languages and indigenous xylophone music.
Faculty Research
Our faculty members are involved in cutting-edge research across a wide range of topics in linguistics. Click on individual faculty profiles for descriptions of faculty members' recent research, publications, presentations, and grants.
Dartmouth Linguistics has a particular strength in researching less-commonly studied language communities. Our research also frequently focuses on tone languages.
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Prof. Stanford researching children's dialect acquisition in rural southwest China.
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Prof. McPherson conducting fieldwork in West Africa.
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Arctic linguistics: Dartmouth faculty and alumnae are involved in a sociolinguistic study of language sustainability in northern Alaska.
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South Pacific: 'Eua Island, Kingdom of Tonga